From Punk Rock Raduno Comp. Vol 4: Three Chords No Brains The Avengers - The American In Me The Copyrights - Trustees of Modern Chemistry Dan Vapid & The Cheats - I Don't Want To Go To The Party Tonight Pansy Division - Coming Clean

My guest is Frank Portman, the singer, guitarist, and songwriter of The Mr. T Experience. On the podcast, Dr. Frank (as he's affectionately known to fans) discusses the decades of work that went into the new best-of compilation, MTX Forever. We also talk about Frank's career as an author of Young Adult fiction, the death of the music industry, his songwriting process, and lots more.

Songs heard on this episode: I Wrote A Book About Rock N Roll (MTX Forever ) The History Of The Concept Of The Soul (MTX Forever ) With My Looks And Your Brains (Revenge Is Sweet... And So Are You ) Hell Of Dumb (MTX Forever ) High School Is The Penalty For Transgressions Yet Specified (King Dork Approximately: The Album ) London (MTX Forever)

John and Toni Baumgartnet, Ed Seifer, Jon Fried, Deena Shoshkes, and Matthew Davis are the Campfire Flies, a group of veteran NJ musicians who came together to make rustic acoustic music drawing from their many strengths. We discuss their formation, their music, and their debut album, Sparks Like Little Stars.

In this episode, I interview Kate Jacobs - singer/songwriter, co-owner of Little City Books in Hoboken, part of the Radio Free Song Club collective, and mom. We discuss all her roles and especially her new album, Second Day Cake, her first release since 2011's Home Game.

On the podcast, you'll hear the following tracks by Kate:

"St. Mark's Bar, 1984," "Slow Dancing To Aqualung," "Slacker Mom Summer Song" from Second Day Cake "Jesus Has Been Drinking" and "$55 Motel" from Home Game. "The Heart Of The Matter" (with Dave Schramm) from the "A Sister" EP

Our special guest is lo-fi legend R. Stevie Moore, who talks about his new album with Jason Falkner, Make It Be, as well as his long career, his philosophy of music, and his mind-boggling back catalog, which includes hundreds of releases available for download at RStevieMoore.com

On this episode, you'll hear...

Stamps and I H8 Ppl from Make It Be Chantilly Lace from Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About RSM Vol.1 Academy Fight Song from The Future Is Worst Than The Past Album Drop and If You See Kay/Run For Your Lives! from Make It Be California Rhythm from Phonography Fuckin' Idiots Everywhere from Unpopular Singer, Vol 1 & 2

Our guest for this episode is Mark Segal of Atom Driver, a New Brunswick supergroup of sorts featuring Mike Polilli (Buzzkill,) Jay Ingstrup (Doc Hopper, Break Evens,) and Mark, who is best known for his tenure in Boss Jim Gettys.

Mark talks about his new band and discusses the New Brunswick music scene of the Nineties. We also present three demos from Atom Driver as well as a playlist from the Golden Age of the New Brunswick scene, with tracks from Boss Jim Gettys, Bionic Rhoda, Buzzkill, bobfields, Aviso'Hara, Prosolar Mechanics, Love Gas, and the Milwaukees.

Atom Driver will be a guest on WFMU's Overnight Sensations program on Friday, October 28 at midnight.

On this episode of the podcast, editor Jim Testa chats with Chris Freeman of Pansy Division about the gay punk band's remarkable 25th anniversary, their new album "Quite Contrary," and the band's legacy in the gay community and beyond.

On the latest JB podcast, we chat with Val Emmich, a veteran NJ musician who's just released Whatever's Chasing You. Val also talks about his career as an actor, including his recurring role on HBO's controversial "Vinyl," and he also tells us a bit about his forthcoming debut novel.

This episode features the following Val Emmich tracks:

I Want To Hang Out Bedtime Regrets Nobody Makes It On Their Own Absolutely Still What Doesn't Kill You Makes You You Change Of Scenery Privacy Attracts A Crowd

NO ICE - We Get High Together Bouncing Souls - Up To Us The Hellstroms - I Hate Your Mom Grim Deeds - Audrey Has Autism The Fleshtones - Rick Wakeman's Cape NOFX - Six Years On Dope Masked Intruders - Running From The Cops YJY - Summer Lifeguard The Paranoid Style - The Ambassador's Morning Lift

Sophe Lux & The Mystic - Love Is Waiting LADY - Realize Eros & The Eschaton - Center Of The World Val Emmich - Nobody Makes It On Their Own

Jim Testa's guest on JB Podcast #143 is Peter Horvath, lead singer and guitarist of New Brunswick's Anderson Council, a psychedelic pop band that's just released a primer of old and new tracks entitled Assorted Colours (on the reborn Jem Records.)

On the podcast, you'll hear the following tracks from Assorted Colours :

Pinkerton's Assorted Colours Never Stop Being '67 Girl On The Northern Life Love Bomb Fire Island Hole In The Sky

Keepin' The Family - Coastline Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps - Funny The First Time The Porchistas - Ebolabama The Harmonica Lewinskies - Flowers Will Bloom C.R. & The Degenerates - Pink Slippin' Cool Ghouls - Just Like Me Evan O'Donnell - Now I Wanna Sound Like Chrissie Hynde Hit Bargain - The Circuits That Cannot Be Cut The Maytags - Business Trip Mikey Erg - Song For New Britain

We're almost ready to celebrate the JB Podcast's tenthanniversary but first here's an hour of music to keep youbusy. Come back next time for a GREAT interview with anartist that our listeners will know and love.

On this episode of the Jersey Beat podcast, our friends Jack Fitzimmons (Netflix With Fitz podcast) and Chris Fabulous (Weekend Quality podcast) take over as guest hosts and interview their special guest.... Jim Testa! They talk about JIm's new EP "American Spirits & Artisanal Cheese" and throw in a good old-fashioned Philly punk playlist for one of our most entertaining episodes in a long time!

Rick Moody, acclaimed author of Garden State, The Ice Storm, and many other novels and short stories, recently published his latest novel Hotels Of North America. Rick talks about the new novel, his life as a writer, and his passion for music as both a fan of bands like the Feelies and Yo La Tengo, and as a recording artist and performer.

On this episode we talk to Lazlo of BlowUpRadio.com about why his Internet radio station will be signing off on January 31, and how he plans to continue broadcasting on other platforms to keep BlowupRadio's mission of supporting New Jersey music alive.

To help celebrate the release of Stringer's debut EP "Dead Ass," we sat down with Max Kagan, Mark Fletcher, and drummer John Seymour to talk about the band, their decision to change the name from Heeney, and the good and bad of Brooklyn's music scene.

On this episode of the Jersey Beat Podcast, we interview Stephen Friedland, better known as Brute Force and author of the legendary banned song "King Of Fuh."

"King of Fuh," "Tapeworm of Love," and "Tierra Del Fuego" appear on I, Brute Force: Confections Of Love, available on Bar-None Records.

We also play "Fantasy Of Nationality" from the album Planetwork , and "The World..." from the album Tour De Brute Force.

Brute Force and Daughter of Force will perform live at The Golden Door Film Festival at the Brightside Tavern in Jersey City on Saturday, September 26. For tickets and showtimes, visit www.goldendoorfilmfestival.org

Jim Testa talks to musician, writer, and author Jon Fine about his rock n roll memoir Your Band Sucks. We also play a few songs from some of Jon's bands as well as contemporaries that he interviews in the book

Justin Angelo Morey - now performing as Sunshine & The Rain with his wife, Ashley - talks about his new band Sunshine & The Rain, growing up in punk rock, and his hometown of Jersey City. Justin was the bassist in the great Rye Coalition and frontman of the psychedelic Black Hollies.

We also play a track each from Sunshine & The Rain, the Black Hollies, and Rye Coalition.

This is a rebroadcast of Jersey Beat Podcast #12 from 2006 when we paid tribute to Jean Shepherd, the author, filmwriter ("A Christmas Story,") comedian, raconteur, and longtime star of The Jean Shepherd Show on WOR-AM.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Chad Oliver of the Brooklyn band The Graveyard Kids about his band and its involvement in the Mama Coco's Funky Collection collective.

Mama Coco's is a DIY recording studio around which has built a coalition of musicians and fans working to create music in an atmosphere of mutual cooperation and support. With its old space flooded out, Mama Coco's has launched an IndieGoGo campaign to build a new state of the art studio to serve as a nexus for low-cost, quality recording facilities as well as community activities.

Kurt Baker - Want You Around The Connection - Gonna Leave You Joe McEnerney - Next September Project 27 - Family Genus Species The New Rochelles - Stop Giving Me The Stinkeye The Leftovers - Telephone Operator

Host Jim Testa is joined by Jersey City singer/songwriter Darren Deicide, whose gutbucket blues mixes well with the bawdy, sleazy necromantic underbelly of burlesque. Darren has allowed us to debut his new sing, "Bomb This Joint," and then performs a new song live in the studio, in between chatting with host Jim Testa

Jim Testa remembers comedian, author, raconteur, televsion personality, and longtime radio host Jean Shepherd, in his opinion one of the greatest American humorists of the 20th Century. We present some of Jean's work, share a few reminiscences, and interview the author of Shepherd's biography, "Excelsior You Fathead." We hope you enjoy this special episode of our podcast.

Screeching Weasel - The First Day of Summer Max Levine Ensemble - It's Make Out Time The Transgressions - Drunk & Depressed The Ergs! - I Shot The Devil's Son Adrenalin OD - Paul-A-Roid The Parasites - The First Day of Summer

Project 27 - Family, Genus, Species The Serlingtons - No Cake For Hitler Sex Wing Starfighter - Kamino The Side Project - Get A New Brain The Marked Men - Fix My Brain Tahoe Jeff - My Brain Hurts The Art of Shooting - The Birdcage Black Wine - Chateau of Ghosts Avi Buffalo - What's In It For? April Smith & The Great Picture Show - Movie Loves A Screen The Used Kids - Dancing On The Edge of the World The Lacksatives - World Class Fad The Hextalls - I Don't Want To Be A New York Ranger Crazy & The Brains - New York City! Franz Nicolay - Oh New England Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now - Creeque Allies Bad Sports - Can't Remember Your Name Pots N Pans - Party At The Swamp Free Energy - Hope Child Mod Fun - Titanic

We're crossing the streams this week and combining the Jersey Beat podcast with "Rock & Roll Gas Station," my Internet radio show, bringing you a collection of songs mostly contributed by the readers of the Pop Punk Message Board (bored.knockknockrecords.com )

You see, my PC is kaput, and my iTunes library and other mp3's have been inaccessible. So I put out a call to the Pop Punk Bored and sure enough, bands and labels sent in enough music to carry me through for a few weeks. So with thanks to Rally and Traffic Street and Merman Records, and bands like the Sentiments, Snotlip, and Wild America, and musicians like David Dead, Drew Hawthorne, and bands from four different countries, we present the cross-dressing, cross-cultural, crossing-the-streams joint episode of the JB Podcast and RnR Gas Station.

This episode of the JB podcast was made possible by bands and labels from the Pop Punk Message Bored sending us these songs, as my main computer is down and I don't have access to my iTunes library. Thanks to my reliable if refurbished iBook G4, the show can - and must - go on!